School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)
- Location:
- Oranmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Ó agus Máire Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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“When Cromwell was in Ireland he and his soldiers visited the parish of Oranmore.”
(continued from previous page)side of the road from the church there are the ruins of another building. Here there was a monastery which Cromwell's soldiers also destroyed.
There was an underground passage connecting the church with the monastery and facing out into the land of a neighbouring farmer. The people of the village say that there is gold hidden here somewhere.
Cloch na Mallacht
“When there is a low tide there is a passage across Oranmore bay.”
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